Zongke Township, rantang County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province

Zongke Township

Zongke township is under the jurisdiction of Rangtang County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. Zongke township is located in the southwest of the county, 49.5 kilometers away from the county government. It covers an area of 543.21 square kilometers and has a population of 2866 (2017). It has jurisdiction over gasman, Wolong and Yidong village committees.

Historical evolution

In 1957, zongke township of chuoshia county was set up; in 1958, it was assigned to zangtang County; in 1966, it was changed into Hongxing commune; in 1981, it was restored to zongke township.

economic development

Zongke Township mainly produces wheat, highland barley, pea, broad bean and potato. Cattle, horses and sheep are the main animal husbandry. There are provincial-level cultural relics protection units risimanba blockhouse.

scenic spot

Nismanba blockhouse

It is located in Shibo village, gasman village, zongke Township, zangtang County, Sichuan Province. It is built on the edge of the front desk of gasman mountain, facing west and East, and its plane layout is rectangular. Risimamba blockhouse is a typical Tibetan traditional blockhouse building with the longest existing age and the largest number of storeys in Aba Prefecture, which has high historical and scientific research value. In 2006, nismanba blockhouse was listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit. in the towns and villages in the Tibetan area, there is a kind of dignified, calm and noble residential style everywhere. Most of the Tibetan residential buildings are two or three storey stone and wood structures, which are mainly built according to the mountain terrain. The building format is square flat top, and the planes are slightly staggered, resulting in overlapping of blocks. Each wing is based on thick rectangular blocks, standing up and closing step by step. In color, it is customary to paint pink or red on large stone walls, and the small windows with trapezoidal black frames have bright lines and neat rhythms, which not only show the passion and rhythm of life, but also show the rational and refined demeanor of meditation. In the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, Tibetan people have created many folk houses with national characteristics. Blockhouse is a typical representative of Tibetan culture in eastern Tibet and an important part of Tibetan traditional residential architecture culture. It is widely distributed in Aba Prefecture and Ganzi Prefecture, among which the blockhouse in ABA is the most typical. This kind of blockhouse is generally a three to four story building, facing mostly South or southeast, with square plane and solid external wall. Taking the four story blockhouse as an example, its typical layout is: raising livestock and stacking debris on the bottom floor, cooking room and storage room on the second floor, bedroom on the third floor, sutra hall and sun terrace on the top floor. The main rooms on the upper floor are laid with floors, and people sit on the ground. There is a small patio in the middle of the room connecting the floors, which is used for ventilation and lighting. The floors are connected by a single wooden ladder. There are no windows on the ground floor. There are few and small windows above the second floor, and the arrangement is not even. The wall is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, thick and heavy in internal structure, with obvious closure. The shape of the whole blockhouse is simple, with little decoration. It is lively and lively in the mountainous area. Some of these blockhouses are close to the streets and rivers, and some are close to the mountains and green waters. They have distinctive features, just like brilliant mountain flowers, dotted among the green mountains and green waters. Nismanba blockhouse is the oldest, largest, most storeyed and highest built traditional Tibetan residential building found in Sichuan Province and even in China. Therefore, it is known as the "king of Tibetan residential buildings". On the left and right are rural roads, farmland and shibozhai, and they are built from west to East in accordance with the trend of the mountains. The wall base is high in the north and low in the south, and the plane layout is rectangular. The blockhouse is divided into nine layers, big at the bottom and small at the top, with a height of 25 meters. From the second floor, the layers are close to the north and form a platform. The north stone wall runs from the bottom to the top, and the top floor area is only one sixth of the bottom floor. As a result, both the side view and the front view are as beautiful as a ladder. The first floor of the blockhouse is the livestock pen, the second floor is the kitchen in the north, the south is the living room, the third and fourth floor is the bedroom, the fifth floor is the Buddhist scripture hall, and the sixth floor is the sundry storeroom. From the second floor, wooden corridors are set on each floor for drying grain or enjoying the cool. There are wooden stilted toilets on the third and fourth floors. Each floor above the second floor has a large window and several small windows for ventilation or lookout. Nismanba blockhouse was built by local chieftains for their painters and has been used for 13 generations. According to the local custom of passing on grandchildren but not children, the building age should be in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty. among the brilliant residential buildings, risimanba blockhouse reflects the long historical and cultural tradition and lofty aesthetic consciousness of the Tibetan nation, and can be regarded as a shining star in the treasure house of Tibetan architectural art.